I just deleted 68 friends on facebook...

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Even if it doesn't bother me much being single I'd still find that lovey-dovey stuff lame and annoying.

i dont even have a facebook!

Hmm, but if you delete all those luvey-dovey people you won't be able to sit back and feel the glee when their statuses change to 'single' in a few months time...

Seriously though, seems a pretty ridiculous reason to delete people. I'm with Who-Am-I on this one.

Doesn't change the fact that I feel worse when others experience a happiness that I can only dream of... I know nobody ever said life was supposed to be fair, but it just feels like a grave injustice to me.

You may not like this but I have to say it- you are so young! You should enjoy being single and finding love as you grow into yourself.

That said, I do not have facebook.

I understand where you are coming from though. It comes from any sort of longing, women who can't concieve see pregnant women and women with babies everywhere. Ppl who can't find love see the lovers. Some who are very poor see others with provision and feel the sting. It takes an adjustment of perspective and time to deal with the way things are in reality to have a good attitude again. I hope you perservere to obtain that healthier attitude, so you will be ready and open hearted when love does find you. Being more unhappy to find of others happiness doesn't sound very healthy. Being in love for real makes you want to broadcast it to the world, shout it from the mountian tops. I hope you get to know how that feels someday, and your friends will still be there for you.

The thing is that you dont need to delete people. All you need to do is write a list of the vomit-inducing people and then select next to one of their newsfeed items "Block newsfeed from this person." They will have no idea you have done this, but you will still be their "friend".

To clarify, my post wasn't directed at TOS, as his loneliness doesn't seem to ever slip into resenting people who are happy.

I don't resent people for being happy together. They can all do whatever they want, that's not my business at all, but seriously, I just don't want to hear it anymore...

Ah, sorry! Thought there was a bit of 'I'll remove my friendship to punish them' sort of thing going on- otherwise why not just block the news-feeds as someone else has suggested? Apologies if I picked that up completely wrong

lame =I
I delete people from my FB list too, but not because of couples, but simply because i don't talk enough to the people to consider them friends.
So your case is kinda bit pathetic =I

I've tried the blocking of news feeds... but still there are times where a person (and their oh-so-happy picture that I'm sick of seeing) creeps into the feed. Most of the time its because they commented on a story that another friend (that isn't blocked) posted...

I don't delete people becuase i don't have what they have, sometimes i would like travel where most of my facebook friends travel, but I'm not envy. I delete people when they boring me with lot of invitation for games, when make on me politic propaganda, when lot of boring videos or song appear in my home page, i removed my sister to prove her that we can find another kind of contact, not facebook and we can stay in connection without facebook, i removed one monk with reason only becuase i bored him with my messages, and he couldn't say me stop boring me. I temporally have deleted my account in facebook, becuase i had lot of invitation for farmville and even messages please send me gift, please send me cow.

Why not choose to be happy for your friends, rather than bitter about your life? That attitude could help you towards a happy relationship yourself, since most people don't like bitter people.

I have no reason to be happy right now... my life has gone to s**t. I don't see anyone wanting to be with me, so what's the point? At the very least I can protect others from myself...

Life is full of ups and downs, you need to learn how to be happy with what you have. In case you have a terminal illness I can understand why you don't want to drag anyone into the pain, it's horrible to go away like that, but at least try to be happy the time you have left, why make your last days horrible with self-pity?

I like when my friends are happy. I've never considered friends rubbing their relationships in my face. They're just happy.

I think I have a resistance against suspicion that people are bragging because my mother was always very critical and paranoid. She often thought people were happy just to hurt her, or to brag about their lives, or to rub it in people's faces. She talked a lot about it and often. She'd detect injury in just about anything. It was so extreme and it would be exhausting to be around her. So, as a reaction, I think I went the opposite way. I probably couldn't perceive bragging if it was the most boasting boaster who ever boasted doing the boasting right in front of me. I'd think, "Wow, they accomplished a lot and should be proud! Good for them!" and genuinely be happy for them. I'm the same way when people talk about their kids. I've heard a lot of criticism about parents for daring to be supportive and proud of their children and I just don't get it. I love my kids, I'm proud of them, I celebrate them, and I expect other parents to be just as supportive of their kids. I sure hope my friends are happy for me when I'm happy. If anyone doesn't like it, they are more than welcome to go f*ck themselves, especially if I've invested the time and energy into actually caring for them. What a rotten way to treat someone.